Enabling

Why is this a priority?

A study in 2010 found that 66% of people want to die at home. Most people die after a long period of frailty and both they and their family carers need support for many months as they near the end of their life.

What we’ve done so far:

Run a Hospice at Home nursing service for nearly a decade that currently supports 650 people a year to stay at home
Paid for a respite care bed 52 weeks a year in a nursing home enabling family carers to have a planned break
Run outpatient clinics to help people deal with physical problems like breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and pain

Campaign Hospice Reach will enable us to:

Provide access to electronic patient records for Hospice at Home nurses
Provide a fully furnished respite care bedroom in the new Hospice
Furnish and equip the new Hospice at Home base
Provide a night sitting service seven nights a week
Improve out of hours support to families in crisis

See how we helped Enid stay at home here

Caring for the communities of Eastbourne, Polegate, Pevensey, Seaford, Hailsham, Heathfield, Uckfield and everywhere in between